Try to Persuade Socrates Friends to Save Him Against His Will

Socrates Is one of the most colorful figures of the ancient Greek world, who the strangeness of privacy life have always been of special philosophical and political science. He was convict to death because he does not believe in God and corrupted the youth people to do the same. In Plato`s dialogue Crito, Socrates spent his last time in the prison. Crito is coming to save Socrates and have plans how to make his escape. Socrates discussing with Crito should he escape from prison or not and gives arguments why he needs to stay and waiting for his death. Crito really wants to save his close friend but Socrates explain his wisdom thoughts: ” I am the kind of man who listens to nothing within me but the argument that on reflection seems best to me. I cannot, now that this fate has come upon me, discard the arguments I used; they seem to me much the same. I value and respect the same principles as before, and If we have no better arguments to bring up at this moment, be sure that I shall not agree with you “ (Crito, 46 b,c) - and take a decision – he does not want to be save. Furthermore, Crito shows some of his arguments why Socrates should escape. First, If he dies he will leaves his 3 children and family. Second, If Socrates dies, Crito will lose close friend. Third, If Crito will not save him, this will be a big shame for his reputation . On the one hand, among his friends, because it will seems that Crito did not his best to save him. On the other hand among the people in Athens just because they expect it to happen and the opinion of majority still matter. Therefore, If Crito will not save Socrates, the people will think that he does not want to do it and does not want to spend money for him. In this arguments, Crito wants to make Socrates to change his opinion and to go out of prison, because, all of his friends are ready to do everything for him:” We would...

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“For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul” (30b).
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obey the state every time the state asks something of him or her? Socrates’ believes
that an individual of the state has an obligation to that state and its laws. However, in
return, the state cannot ask its citizens to do anything unjust. Socrates is willing to
disobey the laws of state because he is afraid to do anything unjust.
When Socrates is sentenced to the death penalty he replies by telling the jury
that there children are going to turn against them because they have put to death an
innocent person. He is confident he has done the right thing because, he says, he hears
a voice when he is about to do something wrong saying “don’t do it.” In his ending
speech he says that death may not be a punishment, maybe death is a never ending
sleep. Socrates states that a just person has nothing to fear and sooner or later the jury
will pay for being unjust.
When trying to convince Socrates to escape from jail, Crito tries to persuadeSocrates to believe that being in jail is unjust because his children will be orphaned.
Socrates deals with this issue by explaining that escaping would be unjust. He says,
one must accept the consequences as a person who breaks...